"The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is
proposing a requirement that every car should broadcast a cleartext
message specifying its exact position, speed, and heading ten times per second." The RF broadcast would be on Channel 172 on the 5.9 GHz band
at ~15 dBm (the minimum suggested) to achieve a 300m range. The purpose
would be to aid autonomous vehicles.
These cleartext messages sound like they'll be signed with a rotating
set of some ~tens of keys as a basic protection against some kinds of spoofing.
The dangers of spoofing a system (ie, GPS or this) used by autonomous vehicles to plan routes is obvious. The dangers of yet another source of location data may not be.
It can be argued that people have already given up on not being tracked everywhere due to the prevalence of tracking smart phones (both
software/gps and basestation/multilateration) and of license plate
readers and their databases.
But at least those things are mostly optional. Mandating this broadcast
on all cars is a major change even if the range is nominally only 300m.
ref: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-01-12/pdf/2016-31059.pdf -
The RF bits start around page 32.
ref, summary: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/06/21/killing-car-privacy-by-federal-mandate/
It sounds somewhat similar to an already existing NHTSA creation: the
tire pressure monitoring system (tpms) that already exist in some vehicles/tires. These signals can uniquely identify a vehicle and can be received with $8 dvb-t usb sticks used as software defined radios
(rtlsdr) and decoded using https://github.com/jboone/tpms
Here's an update to this one. It looks like the FCC is only going to
give about 10 MHz of the 5.9 GHz band for vehicle stuff.
https://www.fiercewireless.com/regulatory/fcc-looks-to-dedicate-5-9-ghz-for-wi-fi-c-v2x-use
On 07/07/2017 02:55 AM, superkuh wrote:
"The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is
proposing a requirement that every car should broadcast a cleartext
message specifying its exact position, speed, and heading ten times per second." The RF broadcast would be on Channel 172 on the 5.9 GHz band
at ~15 dBm (the minimum suggested) to achieve a 300m range. The purpose would be to aid autonomous vehicles.
These cleartext messages sound like they'll be signed with a rotating
set of some ~tens of keys as a basic protection against some kinds of spoofing.
The dangers of spoofing a system (ie, GPS or this) used by autonomous vehicles to plan routes is obvious. The dangers of yet another source of location data may not be.
It can be argued that people have already given up on not being tracked everywhere due to the prevalence of tracking smart phones (both software/gps and basestation/multilateration) and of license plate
readers and their databases.
But at least those things are mostly optional. Mandating this broadcast
on all cars is a major change even if the range is nominally only 300m.
ref: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2017-01-12/pdf/2016-31059.pdf -
The RF bits start around page 32.
ref, summary: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/06/21/killing-car-privacy-by-federal-mandate/
It sounds somewhat similar to an already existing NHTSA creation: the
tire pressure monitoring system (tpms) that already exist in some vehicles/tires. These signals can uniquely identify a vehicle and can be received with $8 dvb-t usb sticks used as software defined radios
(rtlsdr) and decoded using https://github.com/jboone/tpms
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